Visitor addresses:

Industrial Estate South

Industrial Estate South

With public transportation:We recommend traveling with the train to the Freiberg train station. Please take a taxi from the station. If no taxi is waiting at the station, call the central taxi number in Freiberg (+49-(0) 3731-355500).

By car:You will find us in the Berthelsdorfer Straße 111 A in Freiberg in the Industrial Estate South. Traveling from Dresden (B173), drive until the first intersection with a traffic light. Turn onto the Hilbersdorfer Straße. Drive straight on the Hüttenstraße before turning right onto the Carl-Schiffner-Straße. Turn right at the end of the street and immediately left onto Dammweg. On Dammweg, drive to the light. Turn left here and after the tunnel, immediately turn left again. You will find us on the left side after approximately 400 m.Coming from the A4 turn-off Siebenlehn, drive towards Freiberg. In Freiberg, drive to the end of the Leipziger Straße (left after the palace pond). Proceed on the Wallstraße and Annaberger Straße. Shortly before the end of the Annaberger Straße, turn left onto the street Am Bahnhof. Immediately turn right onto the Humboldtstraße until the intersection Berthelsdorfer Straße. Please note that the Berthelsdorfer Straße continues left after the tunnel. From here, drive approximately 400 m to the Berthelsdorfer Straße 111 A.

Saxonia Industrial Estate

Saxonia Industrial Estate

With public transportation:We recommend traveling with the train to the Freiberg train station. Please take a taxi from the station. If no taxi is waiting at the station, call the central taxi number in Freiberg (+49-(0) 3731-355500).

By car:You will find us in the Carl-Schiffner-Straße and in the Alfred-Lange-Straße in Freiberg in the Saxonia Industrial Estate. Traveling from Dresden (B173), drive until the first intersection with a traffic light. Turn onto the Hilbersdorfer Straße. Drive straight on the Hüttenstraße before turning right onto the Carl-Schiffner-Straße. The Alfred-Lange-Straße splits from the Carl-Schiffner-Straße at the main entrance of the module production.Coming from the A4 turn-off Siebenlehn, drive towards Freiberg. In Freiberg, drive to the end of the Leipziger Straße (left after the palace pond). Proceed on the Wallstraße and Annaberger Straße. Shortly before the end of the Annaberger Straße, turn left onto the street Am Bahnhof. Immediately turn right onto the Humboldtstraße. Drive through the traffic light intersection and follow the street, now called Dammstraße. Turn right at the end of the street onto the Frauensteiner Straße and immediately left at the rails onto the Carl-Schiffner-Straße. The Alfred-Lange-Straße splits from the Carl-Schiffner-Straße after approximately 200 m.

Industrial Estate East

Industrial Estate East

With public transportation:We recommend traveling with the train to the Freiberg train station. Please take a taxi from the station. If no taxi is waiting at the station, call the central taxi number in Freiberg (+49- (0) 3731-355500).

By car:Traveling from Dresden (B173), you drive through the community of Naundorf. After the city limits sign, you will already see the SolarWorld building on the left side. Take the first or second left. You will then be traveling directly towards the site in the Industrial Estate East. Traveling from Freiberg, take the B 173 in to Dresden. After the city limits sign Halsbach, turn right onto the Ebereschenstraße and then immediately left onto the Ahornstraße, then immediately left again onto the Prof.-Dr.-Peter-Woditsch-Allee.

The SolarWorld Freiberg site

Wafers for the solar industry have been produced at the SolarWorld site in Freiberg, Saxony near the state capital of Dresden since 1994. After the site was acquired by SolarWorld AG in 2000, the original solar wafer production was expanded in stages to form a completely integrated photovoltaic production site. With this, SolarWorld AG set an early bar for the entire industry. In Freiberg, the production facilities for solar wafers, solar cells, and solar modules are spread across three industrial estates. SolarWorld in Freiberg is the largest industrial employer in the district of Mittelsachsen and the largest SolarWorld site worldwide. There were good reasons for locating in the region: Freiberg has been a traditional location for the semiconductor industry since the 1950s. In addition to production across the entire photovoltaic value added chain, all SolarWorld AG research and development activities are bundled in Freiberg.

All Freiberg production and administrative buildings are equipped with photovoltaic systems: Solar plants with a capacity of more than 14 megawatts are installed on the roofs, facades and in the three solar farms.

Products

Wafer made in Saxony

The solar wafer production in Freiberg is the oldest wafer production in Europe. For over 20 years, silicon discs for the later solar cells have been produced here. The many years of production experience is embodied both in the product and in the many machines and systems developed by the SolarWorld engineers themselves. The raw material for wafer production is highly pure silicon. The quality of the wafer is decisive for the performance of the resulting solar modules.

Solar cells from the heart of Saxony

At the heart of every solar module are the solar cells. Because they produce the actual electricity, which can either be consumed on-site or fed into the public grid. And quality pays off. Because a high-quality solar cell ensures you high yields in the long term. We count on experience: Mono and multi crystalline solar cells have been produced in Freiberg since 2002.

Diverse solar modules from Freiberg

In the Freiberg solar module production, solar cells become real power packets. They bring guaranteed performance to your roof for 25 or 30 years. Every conceivable variant of the SolarWorld solar module is produced in Freiberg: Whether glass-film or glass-glass module, 36, 54, 60 or 72 solar cells, on-grid, off-grid – the entire product range of SolarWorld solar modules rolls off the line in Freiberg. SolarWorld Industries Sachsen is the largest and one of the most modern module productions in Europe.

Management

Mario Behrendt

Mario Behrendt has held various positions with Samsung (Technology and Production manager, etc.) and last worked as Technical Director before moving to the SolarWorld group in 2006.The native Berliner began as CTO of Deutsche Solar AG, then a subsidiary in Freiberg. In 2009, he became its CEO. Today, he is Spokesperson for the Management Board of SolarWorld Industries Sachsen GmbH.

Holger Reetz

The native Berliner moved from the Spree to the Freiburg river Mulde, where from April 2006 he was responsible for solar module production as head of production. From 2009, he was CEO of the then SolarWorld subsidiary Solar Factory GmbH. Before his switch to the SolarWorld group, after his training as a System Technician, Holger Reetz studied automation technology at the Velten School of Engineering. In the television factory "Werk für Fernsehelektronik", which was later acquired by the Samsung group, Holger Reetz was active in various management positions in production. Today, Holger Reetz is managing director of SolarWorld Industries Sachsen GmbH, which combines all stages of photovoltaic production, from wafer to solar cell to solar module under one roof.

History of the site

1994

Founding of Bayer Solar GmbH

1997

Inauguration of the first solar wafer production facility

2000

Acquisition of the solar wafer production from Bayer,

2001

Founding of the solar cell production

2002

Founding of the solar module production

Founding of the recycling business unit for processing silicon products

Start of the solar cell production

2003

Start of the solar module production (completion of the photovoltaic value chain) Construction begins for the logistics center SolarLog

2004

Inauguration SolarLog

2006

Inauguration of the second module production (Solar Factory II)

2007

Founding of the SolarWorld Endowment Fund for Academic Research at the Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg